Monday, 30 November 2015

Here's an unusual challenge at Make My Monday - stamp with anything other than a stamp. If you're stuck for ideas, go and visit our challenge blog, where the DT have come up with some fabulous creations.

I decided to make a scrapbook page using my 8-year-old son's latest school photo . (What is going on with his collar?) He looks so grown-up in it that I was reminded of the quote that I have used :
"A child will hold your hand only for a short while, but will hold your heart forever.".

As I had to print the quote, I needed to use paint or ink for the handprint that would leave the text still legible. I used Paper Artsy Fresco translucent paint, painted it onto his hand and pressed it into place. (He enjoyed it, honestly!) . I also stamped with some bubble-wrap in the top left corner.

Sunday, 29 November 2015

Sorry for the poor lighting - don't see much daylight at this time of year!

So I bet you thought I'd given up on my Empty Box Project! A full two months after my last Empty Box Project post, I give you this, using a magazine freebie of cupcakes and a Clearly Besotted sentiment (not free and not from the Empty Box!) .

It's not that I haven't been working on the project, it's just that it has become obvious why the stamps were unused in the first place! My promise was to 'use it or lose it' and so I actually have disposed of quite a lot of stamps. I want that box empty by the end of the year, so just one month left!

Here's another card I made, a couple of weeks ago, using an empty box magazine freebie. It's okay, but I probably won't use it , or the other stamps in the set, again. There are some nice sentiments though.

Here's a card using all the old masking tricks with a punched out circle and torn paper hills. The rabbit (or is it a hare?) is a Personal Impressions stamp. The sentiment was designed by me, using a font on my pc. Then I cut it , and Santa's sleigh ride, on my Silhouette cutting machine.

Here's a one-layer-card using a big word stamp from Paperartsy. The Santa silhouette is by Crafty Impressions and the two star stamps are by ...who knows? I'm just grateful I could find them, as I'm always losing these tiny stamps! I coloured in with a pink Promarker and a silver gel pen.

Saturday, 28 November 2015

What a shame I can't capture the sparkle and shimmer of this card in the photograph!

I used a Paper Artsy stamp and coloured it with markers. I paper-pieced some of the flower-heads ( same paper as the mount) and added Glossy Accents. Other flowers heads were covered with glitter glue or liquid pearl in gold. I stamped the base card with a Darkroom Door Christmas words and numbers stamp and stamped the sentiment.

I've used this vintage photo a lot over the years, and always thought of it as a Christmas shopper, but now I realise that all her packages are wrapped. I suppose she must be shopping in those department stores where they offer to gift-wrap for you! The snow in the picture is not the cold, wet snow that turns into dirty slush and ruins your shoes. Who'd want to go shopping in that?

The photo is from Joanna Sheen Fashion CD. I used a snowfall embossing folder, snowflake punch and the sentiment and building are die-cuts.

Thursday, 26 November 2015

Jingle Belles have challenged us to make a card from our leftover bits and pieces. I made this last weekend at my lovely local crop. The snowglobe digi (Dearie Dolls?) was one I must have printed out at some time and not used - I coloured it with markers and white gel pen. The paper and sentiment were leftovers from two different scrapbooking kits.

Tuesday, 24 November 2015

I have chosen this week's theme at CCCB and it's to use this photo as inspiration:

As you can see, I've made quite a literal interpretation, depicting the (young) Snow Queen herself. She is a digital stamp (coloured with Promarkers) from the Paper Shelter called 'Frost Girl' - I think she's supposed to be tip-toeing but I tilted her and sat her in a die-cut sleigh that I tripled embossed and then stamped a pattern into. I stamped the trees, dry embossed falling snow, die-cut antlers and added lots of glitter.

I hope you'll visit us at City Crafter and see what the DT, and our Special Guest Star, Marcia , have done .... and enter my challenge!

Sunday, 22 November 2015

I decided to make this A Day For Daises digistamp into a feline high-wire act by printing it onto acetate and colouring it with Sharpies. The small sentiment is a Mama Elephant stamp and the large one is a ready-made die-cut and glittered sentiment from a scrapbook range.

One of my favourite things to do with digital images is to play with the size and crop them to give them a different look. This Bugaboo image is of a penguin on skates, but I cropped him to focus on his face and scarf. I coloured him with Promarkers and added a stamped sentiment.

Saturday, 21 November 2015

For my DT card I was inspired by the mittens to create the scene of Santa's washing line. The clothes are from a Woodware set and the washing line pole is by Inky Doodles. I used Promarkers and Frantage embossing powder and glitter shavings. I hand drew the washing line string which sounds very easy but actually took me several attempts to get the clothes and string in the right places!

I wanted to add a little reindeer embellishment but I wanted it to be a similar style to the reindeers in the photo. I have loads of reindeer cutting files, dies and stamps but none seemed quite right, so I took a cutting file of a deer and (electronically) welded some antlers on it!

Please join in our challenge at Inkspirational , but not until after you've checked out the work of our DT and our Guest Designer, Asha.

Monday, 16 November 2015

Here's my DT card for Make My Monday where the challenge is 'Architecture'. This is an old UM stamp, brand unknown, of a castle and I made a background using inks and a masked moon stamp. It wasn't supposed to be a spooky castle, but I fear it might look a bit eerie!

Sunday, 15 November 2015

52CCT are having a DT call where you have to enter 3 out of 4 challenges. This reminds me of the first time I applied for a DT (my beloved Inkspirational) , where we had to enter four special challenges. This one is my second entry for 52CCT and I know I'll have fun with this whatever the outcome.

So this very clean and simple one-layer card was not that simple for me, of course! This was my second attempt, the first one having a big black smudge down one side. The image is an old stamp, Woodware I think, the small sentiment is Mama Elephant and the big sentiment is a wood- backed one with no brand.

I'd like to acknowledge that I took some inspiration for this card from a card by Jennifer McGuire (of whom I am a bit of a fan), but I used different materials and techniques and added my own twists.

In Silhouette Studio software, I welded a frame and some fir trees together, cut it out and made a window with snowfall acetate. I masked the moon and made an inky sky. Then I added a die-cut stag and sentiment.

I hope you will visit us at City Crafter, see the work of our DT and our Special Guest Star , Marcia Hill ...and join in the challenge.

Monday, 9 November 2015

Last night I was tidying up the stuff I used over the weekend and made this card.

First, the kraft cardstock that I'd used for a get well card. Then a different reindeer from the Sizzix set. The sentiment is another from the Avery Elle set.

But my favourite part of this card is the wreath , a Penny Black stamp which is super-versatile and that I've used a lot over the last few years to create different looks . (Here's another example). This time I stamped it in red and added Liquid Pearls in white, red and gold.

Our challenge this week at Make My Monday is 'Many Thanks'. I know they have Thanksgiving celebrations coming up in Canada and the US, but we don't have this holiday in the UK, so I made a general 'thank you' card.

I used a set of new (to me) Stampendous stamps, which has two vases and several bunches of flower heads, so you do some simple masking to put them together. I coloured them with Promarkers and added a sentiment from Stampin Up.

I hope you'll visit us at Make my Monday, see what the DT has made and join in the challenge.

Tuesday, 3 November 2015

This is a card I made for my MMM teammie, Fliss's birthday, which is today. Hopefully she has received this by now (or will get it when she gets home).

I stamped Hero Arts painted canvass background and stamped the Paper Artsy flower-ish things on top. Then I paper-pieced the flower heads , using some paper I'd done some kind of background technique on a while back (I think it was an inky resist with some text stamping).

Our new challenge at City Crafter is 'Getting Ready for Christmas' - make a card or any project for Christmas.

For my card I used an image of a glass dome containing baubles , by Paper Artsy. The grey-looking baubles are actually silver and sparkly in real life! The bunting is from a Poppy Stamps set and the sentiment is a Pink Paislee stamp, heat embossed in silver, I also used Promarkers, patterned paper, embossed mirror card and a sparkly button-y thing.

Monday, 2 November 2015

Our new challenge at Make My Monday is 'shabby Chic'. The vintage style birds are from Papermania 'Christmas Past' CD. The smaller panel is a leftover from a background-making session I had a few months ago and the panel behind that is patterned paper with a sheen, I sprayed the base card with Distress Ink spray.

I hope you'll come and see what the DT have made and join in our challenge.

Sunday, 1 November 2015

Here's a Pure Innocence angel image, coloured with Promarkers and glitter. I paper pieced the dress from subtly patterned paper, then used a Hero Arts stamp and gold mica powder to add the pattern. I dry embossed gold mirror card and also vellum. I hope you like it!

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My life isn’t perfect, but if I squint at it in a certain light, I can make it seem so.....
I am a teacher in a further education college. I live with my partner and we have an 10 year old son. I also have a grown up daughter and two grandsons aged 12 and 6 I have fantastic friends and family. I know I am very , very lucky!